No. 1 Stanford Cardinal (2-0, 0-0 Pac-12)
vs.
Princeton Tigers (2-1, 0-0 Ivy League)
Thursday, Jan. 31 • 2 p.m. • 61 degrees, cloudy
Taube Family Tennis Stadium • Stanford, Calif.
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STANFORD, Calif. - No. 1 Stanford (2-0) hosts a pair of matches this weekend, representing its final tune-up before next weekend's ITA National Team Indoor Championships.
The week kicks off Thursday against Princeton (2-1). Playing the second match of a three-school road swing, the Tigers are led by head coach Laura Granville, a two-time NCAA singles champion who guided the Cardinal to the 2001 NCAA championship and won 58 consecutive singles matches during her time on The Farm.
Stanford concludes its homestand on Saturday, hosting UC Davis (0-3).
The Cardinal is coming off a dominant opening weekend. With 4-0 shutouts over Saint Mary's and Washington State, Stanford booked a spot in next month's ITA National Team Indoor Championships, a tournament the Cardinal has not participated in since defeating Florida to win the event in 2011.
Simply participating in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships should only cement the Cardinal's already lofty ranking. It would also likely translate into a more manageable postseason path for Stanford, which has inexplicably been seeded higher than No. 5 only once (at No. 1 in 2011) over the last 10 years. Then again, it hasn't really mattered much, as the Cardinal has produced four NCAA titles during that stretch: 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018.
Everything was clicking as expected last week for Stanford, which returns its entire singles and doubles lineups from last year's national championship team while having also added two impact freshmen.
Emily Arbuthnott, who is Stanford's highest-ranked player at No. 16, also leads the squad with 15 singles victories.
The Cardinal is equally stacked in doubles, with the No. 7-ranked duo of Caroline Lampl and Kimberly Yee posting an 8-4 record.